Posted on 01/22/2012 4:15:56 AM PST by Kaslin
This Tuesday, when President Obama delivers his State of the Union Address, we can count on it to be filled with the same platitudes, anecdotes, false promises, cooked stats and tenuous connection with reality we find in everything the man does. It will be a laundry list of progressive fantasy, couched in populist rhetoric and designed to make middle-class Americans think he has something more than the zero connection and concern for them he has.
President Obama doesn’t give a damn about the middle class, jobs, the economy or much of anything that distracts from his progressive agenda. But what do you expect from someone who shows such contempt for the nation’s pastime as to wear “mom jeans” when throwing out the first pitch at the All-Star game?
I’m kidding about “mom jeans,” of course, though only mostly. But about the contempt…not at all.
Last week President Obama went to Disney World – returning to his home country of Fantasy Land to deliver a speech about the need to boost tourism. Tourism is hurting, there’s no doubt about that. But taking a vacation is hardly a priority when you’re unemployed, and for the unemployed, Mr. Obama smacked them across the face with a dead fish.
The administration announced he would block the Keystone XL pipeline, a plan to move oil from Canada to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. The green left hates it because…well, it’s real energy rather than the “green” energy racket they love to milk for government subsidies. If it’s good for humans, you can count on these people to oppose it unless they’re lining their pockets with tax dollars or preparing to profit from forced customer base through regulation.
The pipeline would have meant jobs, good jobs, lots of them … but it seems, as Vice-President Joe Biden so artfully put it, that three-letter word that is President Obama’s No.1 priority – J-O-B-S – isn’t as much a priority as pleasing the cronies he desperately needs for his reelection.
How many jobs? Conservatives say a lot; progressives say not so many. I’m no engineer, but trenches from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico don’t dig themselves, and that pipe won’t magically appear once it’s dug – nor will it maintain itself. So, more than 100 but less than the millions who have lost jobs since President Obama took office. But creating some jobs beats creating no jobs, which is what President Obama chose when he took the side of his “green” elite friends against normal American workers.
Unions wanted the pipeline, too. They like jobs, as long as they’re union jobs. And they are an important part of the progressive brigade. But they cashed out their payoff in the so-called stimulus bill. If they want more of our money to cover their unsustainable, bloated pensions they’re going to have to wait until a second term.
The president was required by law, as part of the payroll tax agreement, to make a ruling on the pipeline by Feb. 21. He called this date “rushed and arbitrary” and said on Wednesday this is part of why he decided against the pipeline. Originally, President Obama had planned to push the decision off until sometime after Nov. 6, a date that is neither “rushed” nor “arbitrary.”
In other words, he wanted to play politics with a critical decision about America’s enemy future. He wanted to wait until after the election, so he wouldn’t anger either group of supporters, Congress forced him to pick one to offend. He went with the one who got the bigger payoff already and, therefore, would be less likely to withdraw support before the election.
So, it was in Fantasy Land this week, where he went to tout the importance of tourism, that President Obama chose to announce a decision that denies jobs to tens of thousands of Americans and compromises our energy security. Those jobs will not be “created or saved,” will not be filled by people who will take their families to Disney World this year and will likely go to China or elsewhere unless we rethink.
It’s fitting President Obama shut down Main Street USA to give his speech at Disney World. He’s been shutting down Main Streets all over the country, from day one. And he’ll continue to do it if he is re-elected. Disney went back to normal after Barack Obama left, but our country will take much longer to recover. We need to start that recovery on Jan. 20, 2013. To borrow a phrase from the president, “We can’t wait.”
President Obama doesn’t give a damn about the middle class, jobs, the economy or much of anything that distracts from his progressive agenda.
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Aint that the truth.
Obama’s biggest decision is where to fly our plane for his next fund raiser.
SHHHHHHHHH.
Leave him there.
That's the best one-paragraph description of this utter boob I've read.
To the contrary, Obama's mission is to destroy the middle class. Marxists have always blamed the middle class for preventing the worker's revolution which they believe will bring forth their communist utopia. Obama's version of "equality" is an entire slave class ruled by a small group of elitists of which he considers himself the Capo di tutti capi.
I hope the Republicans don’t fall for that “crossing the aisle” and sitting together b.s. like they did last year.
It will be a laundry list of progressive fantasy, couched in populist rhetoric and designed to make middle-class Americans think he has something more than the zero connection and concern for them he has.
A long list of LIES to put it simply. I cannot watch such a display.
Didn’t I just see a thread yesterday saying it has already been done. They will sit together.
Didn’t I just see a thread yesterday saying it has already been done. They will sit together. Joe Wilson needs training as a ventriloguist. because this speech could be entitled “you lie”, from start to finish.
They should not show up for a campaign speech. There is no Constitutional requirement for a speech. The pubbies will be there smilin’ and grinnin’.
Fascists never liked Capitalism, individual choices or Christianity. Obama is no different.
I’m willing to bet this SOTU gets one of the lowest viewers in modern history.
they already did :-(
Lets see what the dims do when President Newt gives his SOU to a much diminished collection of dims.
I believe so too. I will watch the responses by Mitch Daniels and Herman Cain
Some children never grow up and Obama’s mind is proof of it.
How about this, after he gives his “SOU”, they hold him over and ask a few pointed questions. If he has time for the charade of his SOU, he obvisously has time to answer a few questions. I’d love to see that dope up there without his telepromter responding off the cuff to a few questions by by say Sen Rubio; and I’d reserve a whole hour for Ryan to skewer the POS up there in the limelight just like he did to Ryan last year.
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